If he's an associate professor, he cannot really be fired. The exceptions are usually only if his entire department were closed, or he committed a crime from a US law perspective (not University handbook). While I do not support this system, it's humorous seeing leftists think they have the power to fire everyone from twitter.
He will still face challenges. They can be punitive and give him unfair duties, and if they repeat what happened in Evergreen, allow a mob to threaten his safety and call off the police. He's making a sacrifice. In the end we either move away from Universities, or reform them. His story will help bring one of these closer.
Agreed, and those are quite substantial. He might avoid some of those, though.
Graduate students and some grants are decided by department and other lower-level committees mostly made by peers in the department, which are supposed to evaluate such applications based on merit. (in some places, that may actually be fulfilled according to merit, but in many cases not).
The bulk of funding is external in most places, such as from places like the NIH (though not for his field, so I'm not sure, maybe the NSF). The University can't cut him, and also, the University is greedy as hell to take that money. They hate funding their own research and love taking a cut of whatever is brought in. For Biology and NIH grants, for example, they automatically take 55-60% from the outset.
He may also avoid some of the grant and student issues because it said he was at Michigan Tech for 28 years. Given the age of someone getting the job as a Prof, he's probably 50-60+ and a lot of people at that stage are not active in external grant applications. If he is an associate professor (the first stage after tenure), his chances of promotions were already over.
If he's an associate professor, he cannot really be fired. The exceptions are usually only if his entire department were closed, or he committed a crime from a US law perspective (not University handbook). While I do not support this system, it's humorous seeing leftists think they have the power to fire everyone from twitter.
He will still face challenges. They can be punitive and give him unfair duties, and if they repeat what happened in Evergreen, allow a mob to threaten his safety and call off the police. He's making a sacrifice. In the end we either move away from Universities, or reform them. His story will help bring one of these closer.
They still can do things to him:
Agreed, and those are quite substantial. He might avoid some of those, though.
Graduate students and some grants are decided by department and other lower-level committees mostly made by peers in the department, which are supposed to evaluate such applications based on merit. (in some places, that may actually be fulfilled according to merit, but in many cases not). The bulk of funding is external in most places, such as from places like the NIH (though not for his field, so I'm not sure, maybe the NSF). The University can't cut him, and also, the University is greedy as hell to take that money. They hate funding their own research and love taking a cut of whatever is brought in. For Biology and NIH grants, for example, they automatically take 55-60% from the outset.
He may also avoid some of the grant and student issues because it said he was at Michigan Tech for 28 years. Given the age of someone getting the job as a Prof, he's probably 50-60+ and a lot of people at that stage are not active in external grant applications. If he is an associate professor (the first stage after tenure), his chances of promotions were already over.